LAHORE: Under the national anti-polio campaign, around 22 million children will be inoculated in 36 districts of Punjab from Aug 22.

Around 85,193 mobile teams and 200,000 workers would perform duties during the campaign in Punjab.

In three high-risk districts — Lahore, Rawalpindi, and Faisalabad — the drive will continue till Aug 28 while in 33 other districts, it will conclude on 26th. The authorities have set a target of vaccinating as many as 22m children up to the age of five years.

Punjab Minister for Primary Health Akhtar Malik and Chief Secretary Kamran Ali Afzal jointly presided over a meeting to review the arrangements for the upcoming drive at Civil Secretariat here on Thursday.

Secretary Health Imran Sikandar Baloch, representatives of international organisations working for polio eradication and relevant officials attended the meeting while all the divisional commissioners and deputy commissioners participated through video link.—Staff Reporter